A new book suggests Chinese sports officials made a trade with European members of the International Olympic Committee during their lobbying for the 2008 Olympics, promising to back Belgian Jacques Rogge's bid to head the IOC in return for European support for Beijing... More >
The auction of 1,500 drums and 978 bamboo scrolls used at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony last year has netted 119 million yuan ($17.42 million), local media reported on...More>
Six months after 91,000 people packed the Bird's Nest to watch the closing ceremony of the Paralympics bring down the curtain on Beijing's Olympic Summer, its owners are strug...More>
Even the Olympic rings are losing their luster for Beijing’s property investors.
Apartment prices in the 2008 Olympic village, home for athletes at the Summer Games in Aug...More>
On January 7, Guangzhou held a Work Meeting on the Implementation of the Asian Games City Action Plan. It was learned that during the 16th Asian Games next year, over 30,000 p...More>
Hopes that Beijing's Olympic baseball venue would be preserved for the future development of the sport in China have been dashed as the stadium's developer revealed it would b...More>
While the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games broke records in terms of participation and performances, they also beat the records in terms of worldwide television coverage, with broad...More>
The Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games saw the largest cumulated TV audience in the history of the Paralympic Games. Worldwide, more than 3.8 billion people in 38 monitored countri...More>
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that the samples collected this summer during the Olympic Games in Beijing will be further analysed as of January nex...More>
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is determined to avoid a repeat of the empty seats seen in many stadiums at this year's Beijing Games at the 2012 London Olympics, it...More>
Looking ahead to the 2012 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee completed a week-long review of the 2008 Games to ensure that London and other Games Organising Co...More>
China has sent an Olympic ticket tout to jail for 2-½ years, and fined him 450,000 yuan ($65,950) for illegally selling on over 500 passes to the Summer Games, in the big...More>
A second fire in four months engulfed the indoor stadium that is being built for next year's 11th China National Games in the eastern city of Jinan, state media reported on Tu...More>
A former Beijing official who oversaw citywide construction projects for this year’s Olympic Games has been given a suspended death sentence for corruption in a case that invo...More>
China made a last minute extension of media freedoms for foreign reporters on Friday, enshrining rights originally granted only for the Olympics.
Foreign journalists will b...More>
